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# DAML Documentation
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This directory contains all of the documentation that gets published to docs.daml.com.
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## Writing documentation
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The docs are written in [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), built using [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/).
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To edit documentation:
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- Same as code: find the file, edit it on a branch, make a PR.
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- For new files, best to copy existing ones, to get the formatting right.
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Don't forget you need to add your file to the `toctree` in `/docs/source/index.rst` *and* `/docs/configs/pdf/index.rst`.
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- **Make sure you preview** before you push.
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- Don't insert line-breaks inside inline literals. Building preview will treat this as an error.
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### Generated documentation
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Not all of our docs are in rst files: some get generated. They are:
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- the ledger API proto docs
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- the DAML standard library reference
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- the Java bindings reference
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To edit those docs, edit the content inside the code source.
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### Previewing
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To preview the full docs, as deployed to docs.daml.com, run `scripts/preview.sh`.
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To live-preview the docs, run `scripts/live-preview.sh`. The script accepts two flags:
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- `--pdf` includes the PDF documentation
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- `--gen` includes the generated documentation
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Note that neither PDF, nor generated docs will benefit from live updates. To update generated docs or PDF docs, quit the preview script with CTRL+C and start it again.
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### Style conventions
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For terminology and other style questions, follow the [main DA documentation style guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dwE45gyxWXqlr4VTq9mJVnmSyBQ8V30ItucWBbCbViQ/edit).
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A few pieces of RST guidance:
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If you’re not familiar, it’s really worth reading the [primer](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html) for the basic syntax (emphasis, code text, lists, tables, images, comments, etc).
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- Keep paragraphs all on the same line (no newlines/line breaks).
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- Heading underlines in this hierarchical order:
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```
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######
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******
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======
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------
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^^^^^^
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""""""
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```
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- For internal links, use the `doc` directive where you can.
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- For bullet points (unordered lists), use `-` (dashes).
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- For code blocks, use the `literalinclude` directive if you can: it's best to source code from files that we test whether they compile.
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## How the docs get built
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The docs get built as part of the main `daml` repo CI, to make sure we don't break any links or do anything else that would cause Sphinx warnings.
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## Publishing docs
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Documentation is published automatically whenever a release is made
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public on Github. Note that there is a delay so you might have to wait
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up to an hour until the docs are published after making a release
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public.
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## Testing code in docs
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TBD
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